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[Oren Beck]

Monty J. Harder wrote:
> "Leo Mauler" <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Uh oh, looks like we're going to have to start quoting
>>"Sissel's Law".  :)
>>
>>Seriously, I don't think anyone will let us forget
>>Hitler.  No matter how watered down the memory gets,
>>everyone will remember him, at least, as a Really Bad
>>Man Who Did Bad Things To People.
> 
And thus Hitler  became an archetype sometimes claimed
as so needful to make points in arguments we'd have to have
  invented him were he not real .

>   Here's Monster's Commentary on Mauler's Corollary to Sissel's Law:
> 
> Hitler will always be remembered as the person to whom some people compare
> others, in order to make them seem bad.  Unfortunately, by doing so, they
> usually end up making their intended target look pretty darned benign by
> comparison.  Godwin's Law comes into play when people (including myself)
> make 'slippery slope' arguments:

My humble take is that Godwin's Law was a social patch for mail /news 
readers
lacking a thread kill feature .

>     A:    The people have voted, and their will should be respected;
> <insert populist target here> must be ended now!
>     B:    The majority of Athenian citizens voted to condemn Socrates for
> his dangerous ideas.  The majority thought the earth was flat, until
> Columbus and Magellan proved them wrong.  The majority of the settlers that
> came to some of the colonies as a result, thought that slavery was OK, and
> when that was repealed, they supported Jim Crow after that. (Just to bring
> it on topic, a majority of desktop computer users run Windows, and
> apparently equate file sharing to terrorism.)  And, by the way, Hitler was
> elected.  I believe that certain things are wrong no matter how large the
> number of people willing to do them, and that no majority is large enough to
> validate them.
>     A:    You mentioned Hitler, so the thread's over and I win!
>     B:    No, because I don't believe in Godwin.
>     A:    Well, yo mama dresses you funny!

Yo mama ? wasn't he a violin player ?

Oren

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